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Educational practices - principles of instruction
This booklet is about the most effective methods of teaching and presents ten research-based principles of instruction. These principles come from three sources:
(a) research on how the brain acquires and uses new information;
(b) research on the classroom practices of those teachers whose students show the highest gains; and
(c) findings from studies related to students’ learning strategies.
The ten principles which are discussed are:
- Daily review
- Present new material using small steps
- Ask questions
- Provide models
- Guide student practice
- Check for student understanding
- Obtain a high success rate
- Provide scaffolds for difficult tasks,
- Independent practice
- Weekly and monthly review
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